Mind-Bending Quotes

They call me the trippy king.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

One friend said, "Donnie Darko movie was weird!" And I thought, "Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought." It's not like I disliked him for it; it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears.

I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.

I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.

Lots of people expect 'Andhadhun' to be a dark film, given it's from Sriram Raghavan. But this film is fun, entertaining, thrilling, and while it has moments of darkness, overall it's not a dark film.

I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.

Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.

I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.

This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.

That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.

M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?